Sample Sentences forquantum (auto-selected)
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An atom can only absorb or release energy in fixed quantum jumps, not in smooth amounts.quantum = tiny, indivisible packet of energy or matter
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The electron absorbed a quantum of energy from the light and jumped to a higher orbit around the nucleus.
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Native blood quantum was introduced in 1705 at the Virginia Colony.† (source)
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His latest career goal is to be a quantum-physics genius.† (source)
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Like quantum particles, they're neither here nor there, impossible to place, impossible to predict.† (source)
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Multiple sophons may be able to form a system to sense the macro world through quantum effects.† (source)
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Possibly to erase some quantum of knowledge that died with my cybrid.† (source)
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And that other thing—science—would still generate gravity and quantum physics and whatever.† (source)
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Quantum mechanics had forced a smaller shift.† (source)
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They appeared to be mining not stone but white light, and when they took the stone in slabs and caused it to float through empty space, tracked by searchlights, hanging on gossamer cables and unseen chains, it was as if they were handling light in cubic measure, cutting and transporting it in dense selfgenerating quanta from the heart of magical cliffs.† (source)
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Physics: nothing beyond the quantum theory of fields.† (source)
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In recent years, however, these tanks had taken a quantum leap.† (source)
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Once your needs for food and water are fulfilled, you move up to the next set of needs, security, and then the next and the next, but the important thing is that, according to Maslow, until your physiological needs are satisfied, you can't even worry about security or social needs, let alone "self-actualization," which is when you start to, like, make art and think about morality and quantum physics and stuff.† (source)
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Relativity, quantum mechanics—on such nights he seems happy enough talking about whatever Werner asks.† (source)
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And if he was talking about the mysterious part of parentage, that our organs could receive waves or quanta of the same length, I didn't know enough about it to differ with him.† (source)
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Something about quantum reactions of the materials.† (source)
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